Wood Ranger Power Leaf Blower battery indicator weird?

Mine does the same thing, but I don’t think it’s just a bad gauge. The light drops quick then hangs around forever, and I get way less than the rated run time when I’m on the trigger hard. If it still blows strong for you then fine, but don’t trust the bars to tell you when you’re actually low.

I mostly watch the trigger feel instead of the lights.

My gauge stays pretty steady for the first few minutes then drops fast near the end, so it’s kind of the opposite of yours. If the blower still has the power you need, the light is probably just a rough guide rather than anything exact.

Mine never did the quick drop thing at all. It sat on full for ages and then dumped straight to one bar and quit maybe a minute later. So I got the opposite problem, no early warning, just dead blower mid pass. I started carrying the charger out with me and topping up before I start instead of trusting any of the lights. The blower itself has been fine otherwise, no fade or weird power loss before it cuts out. If yours still blows strong the whole time then the lights are just telling you a story. What I’d watch is whether it actually quits earlier than before, that’s the only part that matters.

If it still blows the same as day one then the lights are basically decoration. But I’d actually time a full run once, just so you have a number to compare against later. That’s the only way you’ll catch it if the battery starts fading, because feeling it out is useless when the drop is gradual. Mine quit mid pass with no warning so I never got the chance to notice it slowing down. You’ve got the opposite setup, so the lights lying to you early is annoying but harmless as long as the run time holds. Once it starts quitting sooner than your baseline, that’s when the battery is actually going and not just the gauge being dumb.

Mine doesn’t do that at all. First bar holds for most of the run then it just dies, no sitting around at half. So I’d say your gauge is off, not just how these normally act.

Mine doesn’t do the early drop at all, but I wouldn’t call the lights decoration either. They’re just crude. The real number that matters is how long it actually runs, so if it’s still clearing your driveway the same as before, the gauge is lying, not the battery.

Those little bar lights are mostly a rough guide anyway. I had a similar thing with a different blower where the top light vanished almost right away and the rest hung around forever, and the blower kept going the same as always. My take is the light is reacting to the battery warming up under load, not actually measuring how much juice is left. The blower still moving air the way it should tells you more than the gauge does. If you want a real number, run it until it actually quits and see how long that takes from a fresh charge. That tells you what you actually get, and then you can decide if the light is worth paying attention to at all.